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1->''"This song I've written for you is so schmaltzy, it'll make 'Moon River' sound like a farting orangutan."''
2-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "A Star is Torn"
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4Or: The Big Damn [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation Bronze Age]] [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney-Style]] [[OscarBait Award-Baiting]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic End-Credits]] PowerBallad.
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6Tropers who grew up in [[TheNineties the 1990s]] know what we're talking about, right? It's the kind of song which plays over the end credits (usually) of an animated (usually) Disney ([[AllAnimationIsDisney usually]]) movie (usually) from the '90s (usually). They each share a distinctive style and, as per the title, once you hear it you just ''know'' it's going to get nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song, and if it doesn't, somebody's getting fired.
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8They generally have at least four of the following distinctive traits:
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10* Starts out soothing and mellow. Chances are high the first thing to come out of the singer(s) mouth is "Mmmmmmmm..." as if they're taking a pie out of the oven and like the smell.
11* Instead of describing events that happen directly in the movie, it usually covers the more sweeping themes used in it such as ThePowerOfLove, ThePowerOfFriendship, and so on. May be a {{Silly Love Song}}. Most Award Bait Songs have ''absolutely nothing'' to do with the plot (love songs in movies with no romance, for example), and are rarely referenced in the film itself.
12* Extremely [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments feel-good and/or touching]]; may be a TearJerker.
13* Lots of [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles "sparkly"]] synth.
14* [[SmallStartBigFinish Towards the middle, it gets more and more triumphant and builds to a big, epic finish.]]
15* Is penned by a [[PopStarComposer (usually) past-their-prime pop/rock star,]] especially if the film isn't a musical. If the song is a hit, it may prompt a [[CareerResurrection comeback]].
16* If it '''is''' a musical it may appear in the film, but it's occasionally a CutSong, as in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' examples.
17* Context of a FallingInLoveMontage (bonus points if it's also a [[DanceOfRomance ballroom dance]]).
18* TruckDriversGearChange.
19* [[ThePowerOfRock A soaring electric guitar solo]].
20* Especially since the TurnOfTheMillennium (as opening credit sequences are almost unheard of except in Film/JamesBond films), it's ''not necessarily'' considered the film's theme song.
21* A VideoFullOfFilmClips.
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23The distinguishing trademark, however, is when the song has a reprise, [[LetsDuet frequently a duet]], done over the end credits. Bonus points if it's sung by Music/BarbraStreisand, Music/CelineDion (or someone who sounds like her), Music/WhitneyHouston, Peabo Bryson, or Music/BryanAdams.
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25Sounds like the kind of song popularized by nineties Disney films, yes? The funny thing is that the film that probably helped to [[TropeCodifier make this sort of thing popular]] during this particular part of movie history would be "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFp10zmArgg Somewhere Out There]]" from Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', although Don Bluth's team had also had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rv2VTQ8aRE Flying Dreams]]" in the earlier ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''. And even before that, songs unrelated to the story, usually of the love song variety, often sung by popular singers, had been a staple of closing credits for Asian films -- particularly anime -- for decades.
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27Award Bait Songs are also found in many live-action films, notably "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiy9YB1coMw My Heart Will Go On]]" from ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''. Many, many films from the late-70's through late-90's had a song like this, leading some critics to call this period the last really amazing time for movie songs. This has been exchanged for "hip" pop songs from the popular artists at the time, and/or more commonly the movie soundtrack.
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29{{Movie Bonus Song}}s in film adaptations of stage musicals often fall under this trope, since the songs adapted from the stage play aren't eligible for Best Original Song, and this is the filmmakers' attempt at letting the film receive ''some'' accolade for its music. Whatever the song's reason for being, the "Award-Baiting" part isn't the important part, nor is the "End Credits" part. The important part is that the song is strongly associated with the narrative work, serves as a fitting capstone, and is in the style described above.
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31One tactic when trying for an award bait song is to take an existing, usually famous, song and record a SofterAndSlowerCover.
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33It should also be noted that, while the song may be blatant award bait, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools that doesn't mean they still can't]] be [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic really good regardless]].
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35For other kinds of popular and/or Award-winning movie songs, see BreakawayPopHit and IWantSong. Compare ThePowerOfRock.
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37!!Examples
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39[[index]]
40* AwardBaitSong/FilmsLiveAction
41* AwardBaitSong/VideoGames
42[[/index]]
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44[[foldercontrol]]
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46[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
47* ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'' featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e7MlcT3OGs Human Touch]], which was one of the last works composed by the ''Soulful Rain Man'' himself [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Wiebe Warren Wiebe]].
48* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhJxteOZcXs Happiness on the Same Earth]]" from ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}''.
49* ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' gave us the lovely [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kagybz0epQ "Aozora"]].
50** There's also the ED, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4moOdG6Arc Farewell Song]]".
51* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5SSGhmTvr0 Ichiban no Takaramono]] (My Most Precious Treasure) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL2vlUlpytQ My Song]] from ''Anime/AngelBeats''
52* The second ending theme for Season 2 of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', "Mata Kimi ni Aeru no Hi" (Until the Day I See You Again).
53* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan has several. The main highlights are:
54** The first ending of season 1, ''[[https://youtu.be/JfYmVlTQrfw Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai]]'' by Creator/YokoHikasa, which is written from Mikasa's perspective
55** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYV-LUQJrVE Akatsuki no Requiem/Requiem der Morgenröte]]'' written and sung by Music/LinkedHorizon.
56** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwt04s3DwY 13 no Fuyu]]'' (13 Winters) Written and performed, again, by Music/LinkedHorizon with vocals from Creator/YuiIshikawa. A tragic love ballad about the main couple of the series.
57** Ai Higuchi wrote and sung not just one, but two Award Bait ending songs: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnh--ZOPyo Akuma no Ko/Child of Devil]] and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE2_BeKcG4E&pp=ygULaXR0ZXJhc3NoYWk%3D Itterashai / See You Later]]. Interestingly, both serves as sort of a reply to each other.
58** The Ending songs of the series finally reached their triumphant conclusion with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl2mFdZN6M0 Ni-sen Nen... Moshiku wa... Ni-man Nen-go no Kimi e/To You, 2000 Years, Or Perhaps, 20,000 Years Later]]'', also by Linked Horizon but with a twist, featuring Creator/YuiIshikawa and Creator/YukiKaji as vocals. The song pretty much summarize the main themes of the series as whole: starts with a reprisal from ''13 no Fuyu'' above, then transition to reprisal of ''Requiem de Morgenröte'' with a different , but no less grievous lyrics, followed by going all in with the glorious melody reprise of the series first opening song ''Guren no Yumiya'' before finally ended with a somber outro which signals the end of the story as a whole.
59* "[[https://youtu.be/nSPgS3R0i34 Mierudarou Byston Well]]" and "[[https://youtu.be/qb7ZVeYicVM Ao no Speech Balloon]]" from ''Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine''.
60* ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc I - The Egg of the King'' features the beautiful and uplifting song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8NDDzEeNAI Utsukushiki Mono]]'' (''Something Beautiful'') by R&B artist Ai, from her album ''Independent Woman'' which topped charts in Japan. According to Website/TheOtherWiki she felt it was the most vocally challenging song she had ever recorded.
61** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZa0Yh6e7dw Guts' Theme]] from the ''Anime/Berserk1997'' series is an instrumental example.
62** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2nujEzKr8w Wish]] by Mika Nakashima, from ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc: Memorial Edition''.
63* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKc6a0dPSPM "And Forever"]] from the ending of ''Anime/TheBigO''
64* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSVns8JxCY0 Life]] from ''Anime/{{Canaan}}''.
65* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1M62SH-nuc Mother]] from ''Anime/CaroleAndTuesday''.
66* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh9a5kJuz_0 A Path]] from ''Anime/CasshernSins''.
67* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67ZXLPeg9s Chiisana Tenohira]] (The Palm of a Tiny Hand) from the end of the ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'' series.
68** From ''~After Story~'', we got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw17y9E4Dew Toki wo Kizamu Uta]] (The Song That Transcends Time).
69* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nftxDrStny8 The Real Folk Blues]]'' and the final ending theme ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qBqP2I4p8 Blue]]''. TheMovie has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT6u0bE6vTwGotta Knock a Little Harder]]''.
70* "[[https://youtu.be/h4VJGNNSQnw I Really Want to Stay at Your House]]" from ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is an interesting example given that it preexisted the anime by about two years. It was originally a song on one of the in-game radio stations in ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' and was well-regarded but given recontextualization by the anime it ''really'' exploded in popularity in 2022.
71* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74QJNouj_1U When I cry]] from the 1997 anime movie adaptation of ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders''. Fittingly, its one hell of a TearJerker.
72* ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' may be not have been seen as great in everyone's eyes, but this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX9evhBKxf4 Sabitsuita Machine Gun by WANDS]] was a great song to finish off to finish the franchise.
73** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6shbS6fDY8U Hikari no Tabi]]" for its "Bardock: the Father of Goku" special. Bonus points for being a duet.
74* [[https://soundcloud.com/senausagi/shizuka-kudo-kimi-ga-kureta Kimi ga Kureta Mono]] from ''Manga/FairyTail'' fits this trope very well.
75* The ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' is rife with this:
76** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh6gGmRQmyQ Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau]], sung from Irisviel's perspective and [[http://soundcloud.com/lavion/manten Manten]] from ''Literature/FateZero''.
77** The ''[[Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks Unlimited Blade Works]]'' anime has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeI8E20ZUE4 Brave Shine]] from Aimer on the opening, which actually [[https://myanimelist.net/news/42586194 won]] a Best Anime Theme Song award in Japan.
78** The first anime movie adaptation of ''[[Anime/FateStayNightHeavensFeel Heaven's Feel, Presage Flower]]'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Jly1jmkwE Hana no Uta, or Song of Flowers]] also by Aimer, which, in full of Heaven's Feel TearJerker glory, captures perfectly [[spoiler: Sakura's feelings of his past treatment from the Matous, as well as to Shirou, being her only hope to get out of the mess.]]
79* Speaking of Aimer, she herself is a fine example of this trope, with songs like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ePxx3VI_OQ Ninelie]]'' from ''Anime/KabaneriOfTheIronFortress'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV7QjFdNkUk Dare ka Umi wo]] from ''Anime/TerrorInResonance'' being great examples.
80* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' has the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXQLrkW33f0 Bratya]] which was featured at the end of the episode where we see Ed's and Al's past. Even though it's in Russian, a language most viewers probably don't understand, it definitely packs a punch.
81* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' featured no less than two of these songs ''as openings'' for its anime adaptation. The first, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICn_pmfU3SE "tomorrow"]], was used for the original series, the second [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdDeyc8F-Dk "Sore ga Ai deshou?"]]("I guess that's love?") [[ItMakesSenseInContext strangely enough]] was used as the opening for ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu''.
82* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztkf-FmwAE Wakatte Ita Hazu]] from ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', used as an insert song for the most emotional moments of the anime.
83* ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'''s intro, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYzL5hN0sRE "We Were Lovers".]]
84* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llQaGRUiERg Itsuka Hoshi no Umi de]]" (Someday, In the Sea of Stars) by Shinomari Satoko as its ending theme.
85* The gently sung "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIg15Hn8Mds Boku no Honesty]]" by Shinichiro Kawakami plays during credits in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/TheyWereEleven''.
86* ''Anime/GreatPretender'' has three examples, each fitting different Award Bait criteria:
87** First is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWAu1ZBkWI8 Someday]]," the theme of the third arc. It begins with sparkly synth, it starts slow and builds to a big finish, it's played over a FallingInLoveMontage, and it's a soulful ballad about overcoming one's past. It's treated as ''the'' SignatureSong of the series, being heavily promoted by the show's social media and being one of the songs available on its official Spotify. However, it's more somber than other Award Bait, and it ''is'' directly about events that happen in the show.
88** Second is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnYcLtgfO5Q Our Love]]," the song used as a FriendshipSong for Makoto and the other members of Team Confidence. It's a heartwarming, uplifting, and uptempo SillyLoveSong about ThePowerOfLove which isn't directly about the events of the series, it builds to a big finish, and it ends on a delicate piano trill. It's used in multiple places in the series and is one of its other signature songs.
89** Finally, there's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlf1ayg2amU Through the Night]]," the show's actual final song, used during its WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. It's a big, sweeping ballad about persevering in the face of adversity, and it's actually used during the show's conclusion, as is traditional for Award Bait Songs. It's also not directly about the events of the series, though it does tie into them.
90* ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' gives us ''three'' songs for consideration: [[http://soundcloud.com/chii-n/euterpe-egoist "Euterpe"]], [[http://soundcloud.com/rean-tarah/egoist-departures "Departures ~Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta~"]], and from the ''Lost Christmas'' OVA/game, [[http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Planetes/56qjsD?src=5 "Planetes"]].
91* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o33Rv2Z-4iI Toki no Kawa wo Koete]] for ''Anime/{{GunBuster}}'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBgEr07Sq6s Tatsu Tori Ato wo Nigosa zu]] for ''Anime/{{DieBuster}}'' are instrumental versions of this type of song. [[spoiler:WELCOME HOME.]]
92* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTtpTogd60 Kimi o shinjiteru]]" by STEVE from ''Anime/GiantGorg'', a series also of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko fame. Weirdly enough, sounds a bit similar to the famous "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' despite being released years prior.
93* Oku Hanako's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VleZj2EhPAc "Kawaranai Mono"]] from ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime''
94* ''Anime/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer'' has "Qualia" by Music/UVERworld.
95** Don't forget Yuna Ito's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51VZSCmyJOU "Trust You"]].
96* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK8ESpXJEPg ''Tender Oblivion'']], ending song for [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya ''The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya'']]. The ''a cappella'' version is the one which plays at the ending credits, rather than the J-Pop version released as single.
97* The original ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}'' anime has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7OIP1zK-Jc Shine]]" by Music/MrBig as the ending song.
98* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8vSXZtWEQ Destiny ~Shukumei~]] from ''Hitsuji no Uta'' is a gloomier version of this trope.
99* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGLw9C2N40A Nagareboshi Kirari]], the fourth ending for ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' (2011), which has a much more somber tone compared to the other more energetic ending songs and plays during the first half of the Chimera Ant arc, arguably the darkest, most tragic arc in the entire series.
100* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxVcP-Pb6dc No More Words]] from the first ''Manga/InuYasha'' movie.
101* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISPzkY7IXas "Season"]] from the ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' 2012 anime, sung by Kaori Kano and composed by Taku Iwasaki.
102* ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' has "[[https://love-live.fandom.com/wiki/Kiseki_Hikaru Kiseki Hikaru]]", which isn't an end credits theme and was instead used as an insert song in TheMovie, but nonetheless sounds like one and thematically fits the series' conclusion. It starts off as a soft, innocent tune reminiscing about a long journey's end, but the orchestral accompaniment steadily becomes more grand and sweeping as the lyrics become increasingly bittersweet and reveal [[spoiler:it's actually about Aqours trying to stay hopeful after failing to accomplish their goals. (which is relevant to the ending of the anime, where they failed to save their school.]]) Nonetheless, it ends on an optimistic note, that [[CueTheSun the sun will rise again.]]
103* The ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' franchise has a few [[JapanesePopMusic J-Pop]]-style showstoppers, but special mention must be given to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24 Do You Remember Love?]]", specially written for the SummerBlockbuster of the [[Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove same name]] by the late Kazuhiko Katoh.
104* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a0wn0NbQpc Kaerimichi]]", the first opening of ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}''.
105* ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZSxignamsM Kodoku no Hikari]], the lyrics especially capture the feeling of trying to be hopeful in a very [[CrapsackWorld depressing environment]] which is very not that far from the actual events in the story [[spoiler:especially with all of the BigBad Sicks' atrocities and the death of Sasazuka]] while having a bittersweet tone that the show tries to give us.
106* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGQSuYzQ5Do Eternal Wind]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91'', which unlike the planned series opening was preserved for the ending credits.
107* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' has "Orphans no Namida" by MISIA, "Streetlight of War", and "Freesia" by Uru.
108* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrWu3SnGqSw Trust You Forever]]" from ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam''.
109* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtZCmSZ0Zl8 Mizu no Akashi]]" sung by Creator/RieTanaka (as the character Lacus Clyne).
110** The sequel, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', takes the trope further, by using the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFasQ6CpPdc Fields of Hope]]" to accompany [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkK5ggbc-rk visuals of a space colony crashing into the Earth, destroying entire cities and killing millions.]]
111* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia: [[Anime/MyHeroAcademiaHeroesRising Heroes: Rising]]'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3HvdBkJQxI "Might+U"]], an epic arrangement of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwACoXnNcwg "You Say Run"]] that plays during the film's final battle [[spoiler:after Midoriya transfers One For All to Bakugo]].
112* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih7nIkT_WSo Itsumo, Itsumo]]", from ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere''.
113* ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzreW201zlo Fanfare]] by Mr. Children.
114** There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QHmMwqY5Lc "One Day"]] by The Rootless, although it kind of spoiled the fact that [[spoiler:Portgas D. Ace got KilledOffForReal]].
115** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4QGBQlXqLM ''Tsuki to Taiyou'']], the twelfth ending, definitely sounds like one of these.
116* After the epic fight to finish the first season of the anime series, the finale ending song for ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP0SS8GnVHk "Kanashimi Tachi Wo Dakishimete"]]. Sayonara indeed.
117* A group of unofficial fan dubbers creating an English track for the movie ''Anime/OneStormyNight'' took it upon themselves to actually pen an all-original award bait song for the end credits, replacing the movie's original end credits theme, "Star". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsCHDWGvNu0 "Watch the Moonrise"]] is actually quite sweet.
118** Can also become a TearJerker, depending on how you look at it.
119* [[http://youtu.be/DZmWtKA-ot4 Every Time You Kissed Me]] from ''Manga/PandoraHearts''.
120* Even ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' gets in on this trope with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EIB_qRbaoE "Chocolat"]] by Stocking's Japanese voice actress Creator/MariyaIse. It especially works in the context of its episode, "Ghost; The Phantom of Daten City".
121* The eponymous song from the ending of the 2004 ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}'' anime. May sound like a fairly ordinary anime vocal ending at first, but easily becomes TearJerker by the end of the story by sheer stunning context with it. Effect may be amplified if you are particularly moved by the style of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpenters The Carpenters]].
122* ''Anime/{{Pokemon 3}}'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-w2rz873Zk To Know The]] [[{{Pun}} Unown]]" performed by the girl group Innocence.
123** And of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clI1Fe4-LMo The Power of One]] by the late great Music/DonnaSummer from ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'' (the Japanese version uses a rather dissonant rap bit by Music/NamieAmuro). This one was famous enough for Herman Cain to [[WaxingLyrical quote the lyrics for his exit speech]] from the 2012 USA Election Republican leadership race, with him referring to Donna Summer as "[[MistakenForProfound a poet]]."
124** ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjdhqCZQGlQ "We're A Miracle"]], which fits the trope fairly well, except being a little less epic and sung by a big pop star, Music/ChristinaAguilera. Curiously, the Japanese version of the film featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1JLTqKJHcI "Kaze to Issho ni"]], which certainly sounds like one of these. Honestly, every Pokémon movie makes an attempt at this.
125*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijxIO4GQko It Was You]] by Ashley Ballard.
126** ''Anime/PokemonJirachiWishmaker's'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSEkhMjL4eI "Make a Wish".]]
127*** By that extension, the Japanese version's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JU9n_r7aww "Chiisaki Mono" (A Small Thing).]]
128** ''[[Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai The Rise of Darkrai]]'' uses, of all things, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUZ06oTrpFU "I Will Be With You (Where the Lost Ones Go)"]] for its award bait song--even in the Japanese version! Can lead to a bit of SoundtrackDissonance over the ending credits, which has the beautiful, soulful ballad played over scenes of adorable frolicking Pokémon.
129** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eDhPXHPjfM Open My Eyes]], the ending theme of ''Anime/PokemonDiancieAndTheCocoonOfDestruction''. The song has the theme of letting go of one's fears and opening up to the world, with the second half being a beautiful melody.
130* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hq0-47hyds "All Alone With You"]] by EGOIST, the second ED from ''Anime/PsychoPass''.
131* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' gives us a soft-rock variation on this with Kyoko and Sayaka's ImageSong [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6NB2F-Jcw "And I'm Home"]] by their seiyuu Creator/AiNonaka and Creator/EriKitamura, the ending for the Blu-Ray version of episode 9.
132** Kalafina's [[https://soundcloud.com/xiaobiyao152/01-hikari-furu Hikari Furu]] (a vocal version of the already heartbreaking Sagitta Luminis) is this for the second movie.
133** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' celebrates [[spoiler: Homura triumphant in her belief that UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans]] with the heartbreaking [[http://www.jpopsuki.tv/video/Kalafina---Kimi-no-Gin-no-Niwa/408996666dafb6c7d89c67cf3105ef6a "Your Silver Garden"]].
134* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8mgvX52I0c Tune the Rainbow]] from the ''Anime/{{RahXephon}}'' movie simply begs for this.
135* [[http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Beautiful+World/570GvF?src=5 "Beautiful World"]] from ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''.
136** An [[http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Beautiful+World+PLANiTb+Acoustica+Mix/4FPOxv?src=5 acoustic version]], which comes across as more of an award bait song than the original, is used in ''Evangelion:2.0''.
137** ''3.0'' does it again, this time with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QuNch8B-N0 "Sakura Nagashi"]]. Quite possibly the most Award-Bait-y out of all the Evangelion songs.
138** ''3.0+1.0'' then tops out the previous songs with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uhh62MUEic "One Last Kiss"]], followed by a seamless transition into a TriumphantReprise of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVsDtG1y_Qs "Beautiful World"]], after being absent from the DownerEnding of the third film.
139* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHwnFARzEp8 "Wishing"]], the insert song for Rem from ''Literature/ReZero'' which is sung by her voice actress Creator/MinoriInase, is used this way to end episode 18 of the anime. [[spoiler: Knowledge of her final fate at the end of arc 3 in the Web Novel can make this hope filled song a massive TearJerker]].
140* "[[https://youtu.be/1SrMPaCJLL8 Awake]]" from ''Anime/RWBYIceQueendom''.
141* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyYLMkrE4w "Tuxedo Mirage"]], the ending theme of ''[[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Moon S]]''. The song for that season's NonSerialMovie, Moonlight Destiny, moreso, bonus points for coming from an actual film.
142* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkoqu_Jkhnk Blue Dream]]" from ''Manga/SaintSeiya''.
143* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5JDKlD7tw "Feel like A Girl"]] from ''Manga/SchoolRumble''.
144** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAHXdQ6QE9M "Girls Can Rock"]]. That's like one of the most rockin' songs in all of the series!
145* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYrBF9CmI-k "Somewhere in the World"]] that was used as the credits theme for the anime's third season finale, sung by Creator/HoukoKuwashima (the voice of Fillia). Sung in English no less.
146* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enBHtPiBW7I "Bokura no Natsu no Yume"]] (Our Summer Dream), from ''Anime/SummerWars'', sung by Tatsuro Yamashita.
147* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1a8Kpbq7Nc First Love Song]]" from ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}''.
148** ''Weaponized'' with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Umcf7FUT8 Xtreme Vibes]]" from ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' XV as a way to [[spoiler: '''save the entire fucking world.''']]
149* ''[[Anime/TenchiMuyo Tenchi Forever]]'', which was meant to be the conclusion of the ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'' canon, has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhdNoFWaUBI Love Song ga Kikoeru]], which is appropriate considering he actually picks someone in this continuity.
150** "Tenchi Muyo! in Love" has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCwGLKu8_tI Alchemy of Love]]" by Nina Hagen and Rick Jude.
151* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_veVV8ciJMo Namida no Tane, Egao no Hana]]" from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann The movie: Lagann-Hen''.
152* Quite a few in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''
153** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpPoEhO0Ptg Tsubasa]]" by [[Music/YukiKajiura FictionJunction KAORI]]
154** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jehMXrY1q5I Yume no Tsubasa]]" by Creator/YuiMakino there's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF6cdKW9C44 a duet version]] with Creator/MiyuIrino
155** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXNf_fFUhV8 Ring Your Song]]" by Eri Ito
156** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbgzGLq8Ro Kaze no Machi He]]" by ''[=Fiction=]Junction KEIKO''
157** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn2vrTx_5Wc You Are My Love]]" by Yui Makino and there's an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm0P23PpRek English version]] by Eri Ito
158** ''[[http://youtu.be/sKAnKMr0UQk Dream Scape]]" by [=FictionJunction=] KAORI
159* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t661DztOJQ After All]]'' from ''Anime/TurnAGundam''.
160* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTUv2LRA_nc Zutto Sono Machi De]]'' from ''Anime/UtaKata''.
161* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FJoZyg8yTI Asu e no Kaze]]'' by George Yanagi in the credits of ''Manga/VenusWars''. An atypical example for the artist since he's mostly known for upbeat songs.
162* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne: [[TheMovie A Girl In Gaea]]'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnnHmjpldQc You're Not Alone]].
163* ''Anime/VivyFluoriteEyesSong'' has the titular ''[[https://youtu.be/2qcvp5nE4Lc?si=sN7tnkHMja8wByJ- Fluorite Eye's Song]]'' Vivy's ultimate triumphant song, [[NonSingingVoice sung by]] Kairi Yagi, the singning voice for Vivy.
164** The opening theme song, [[https://youtu.be/JqN4_mufE2U?si=IpL8v6B_JcXXSJr7 Sing My Pleasure]]'' also by Yagi. [[https://youtu.be/edcZaqRceKc?si=-xgfQo59wA2c790Z Another version]] also is sung by the AI character, Grace, provided by Hikari Kodama.
165** ''[[https://youtu.be/rweQmBxc2lc?si=qKlhLsLCyNm9xfvS Ensemble for Ploaris]]'' first sung by the AI character, Estella (singning voice of Rikka) and then later joined in a duet by [[spoiler: her sister, Elizabeth (singining voice of Noa) as the [[ColonyDrop Polaris colony plunges]] to earth]].
166* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_cRjHvXDo "Half Pain"]] from the ending of ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin''. The lyrics are heart-wrenching, but is warm and soft in its delivery. Hauntingly beautiful.
167** Roughly "So long ago, I threw away my brightness; and like the light of the morning sun, it can never return".
168* [[https://youtu.be/vOAe2BON9aI The second ending]] to the original ''Anime/YuGiOh'' series.
169* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcd0TQVRlX8 Sora wo Miagete]]" by Shirai Takako, the second ED from the first season of ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest''.
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176* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' has the affectionate parody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n_2uL2YjN8 "Not Alone".]]
177--> "Now that we're finished that four-part harmony..."
178* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-as6Kbcj4c Aerith's Theme]], a tribute to Aerith from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', also deserves to be mentioned.
179* Creator/TeamStarkid's ''[[Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier Twisted]]'' parodies this with a slowed down pop-version of the main love duet over the end credits, which sounds exactly like every Disney credits song of the 90s.
180* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
181** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrRRaQpdOqY Twilight's Journey]]" by Ponyphonic; a song about [[TheHero Twilight Sparkle]]'s transformation into an alicorn princess.
182** Forest Rain and Decibelle's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUC_AwTKLic Great to Be Different]]", a duet ballad dedicated to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Derpy Hooves]].
183** Another Forest Rain song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0AqTtKHQc0 To Catch a Falling Star]]", is an instrumental LonelyPianoPiece with a bit of an interesting history. Originally composed without any connotation to the show, it was to be released on a Kickstarter-funded community album in support of Kiki Havivy, a (very young) friend of Creator/TaraStrong's who had cancer. The album never got released and Kiki lost her cancer battle several months later. Forest Rain later uploaded it to Website/YouTube in her honor.
184** Acoustic Brony's and [=MandoPony=]'s "A Long Way from Equestria" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vwHzwkStCg ) plays at the end of ''Film/BroniesTheExtremelyUnexpectedAdultFansofMyLittlePony'', and perfectly reflects the fandom's struggles and beliefs.
185* ''WebVideo/UndertaleTheMusical'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUUMUsAl97M Home]]".
186* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'' has a nice tribute fan song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyiybTAKuZg Fight for Your Heart]]" which is a nice ballad about our favourite barbarian.
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190* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'':
191** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiLduYQ1rsI A Whole New World]]" was the 1992 Oscar winner.
192** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG_0HRYUqyM "Proud of Your Boy"]] was a CutSong reinstated to the ScreenToStageAdaptation.
193** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kYo7-iqjxg A Million Miles Away]]" was a new addition to the stage musical.
194* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' ends with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq3-njhxFKI Love Survives]]". While the song is a TearJerker on its own, it's even ''more'' heartbreaking if you know the RealitySubtext: It was not written for any awards, but was written in tribute and dedicated to Creator/JudithBarsi, the voice of Anne Marie, who was murdered by her father.
195* From ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven 2'', there's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3GFmsjvaZY I Will Always Be with You]]".
196* "Somewhere Out There" from ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' is the TropeMaker.
197* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82oVuAZIZUs Dreams to Dream]]" from the sequel ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West''. An ironically straight example, as at the start of the film Tanya gets pelted with tomatoes by annoyed neighbors while reprising "Somewhere Out There".
198* ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' has two: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDbvjqRuMTA Journey to the Past]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zspz-zqeNbg At the Beginning]]". "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wg22bwH0WU Once Upon a December]]" is either this or a bonus IWantSong. "Journey to the Past" got the Oscar nomination (and a cover by {{Music/Aaliyah}}, performed at the ceremony), but lost to "[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} My Heart Will Go On]]".
199* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teQsl2CQAOw We've Made It to the Top]]" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animalympics}}'', written and performed by Graham Gouldman of 10cc.
200* ''Anime/{{Arrietty}}'' has "Arrietty's Song" and "The Neglected Garden" by Cécile Corbel. The [[ImageSong Image Album]] has more such songs like "Sho's Song", "Forbidden Love", and "Sho's Lament". The American Disney dub also adds in Music/BridgitMendler's (Arrietty's American voice) "Summertime".
201* Music/CelineDion's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn-NDxxPJuU Let Your Heart Decide]]" from ''Astérix and the Vikings''.
202* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZad3r63wAI "Where The Dream Takes You"]] by Music/{{Mya}}, from ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
203* ''[[Literature/{{Babar}} Babar: The Movie]]'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FE0qqKnKkc The Best We Both Can Be]]" by Molly Johnson.
204* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtgRpum6wk Reach for the Light]]" by SteveWinwood.
205* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' has "Love Is A Song" sung by Donald Novis. Though it's primarily used over the opening, a short reprise is also used during the ending.
206* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi II}}'' had several country pop songs, though "Through Your Eyes" by Martina [=McBride=] plays over the end credits and fills most of the usual credentials best.
207* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNd7YCB0E7o Shine]]" from ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses''.
208* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJJxbQVnVe8 I Never Even Told You]]".
209* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmps3d6Kiw title song]] from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' won the 1991 Best Original Song Oscar.
210** "A Change in Me" from the later years of the Broadway ScreenToStageAdaptation, by replacement Belle Toni Braxton's request for a big number in Act Two.
211** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRt5TPszdLc As Long As There's Christmas]]" from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'', sung by Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack. Nominated at the 1998 Annie Awards.
212* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOVSmkmiKXU Sometimes Secretly]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheBFG: TheMovie''.
213* An example from China, ''Animation/BigFishAndBegonia'' has many songs that fit this trope perfectly, especially "[[https://youtu.be/3e2yOMrMzzU Big Fish]]" by Zhou Shen and "[[https://youtu.be/RbeNbvExDfA Rendevous in This World]]" by Eason Chan.
214* Music/FallOutBoy's theme for ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrpa3g8gHCw "Immortals"]] isn't much of an example, but the movie's [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong Japanese theme song]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwjKXHZWzQ "Story"]] by Ai hits all the right notes for this trope. Too bad it would have been ineligible for the Oscar even if it was included in the North American release, since it wasn't written for the movie (in fact, the original Japanese version of the song predates the film by at least 5 years).
215* [[http://youtu.be/LqxC0SkKxwI "I Thought I Lost You"]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}''.
216* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwJ2b6cHKo I Love You Too Much]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJnaP_IQewI The Apology Song]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''.
217* ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'' has a cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1qTKjiz-I What the World Needs Now is Love]]", sung by Missi Hale (who voices Mrs. Templeton).
218* ''Anime/TheBoyAndTheHeron'' has "Spinning Globe" by Music/KenshiYonezu.
219* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUoZN4cpfmM "Learn Me Right"]], by Birdy, featuring Music/MumfordAndSons, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}''.
220* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0TvoCZJAJI "Look Through My Eyes"]] by Music/PhilCollins, from ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''.
221* ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' has the closing credits song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI2QmjV2HMU Everyday]]" in ''Caillou's Holiday Movie'', a DirectToVideo film.
222* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd_A2Owv92U "Our Town"]] from ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'', sung by Music/JamesTaylor (one of the few songs on that soundtrack that's not a cover). Another one from the same movie, which is more baity, is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwiNSplRqcA "Find Yourself"]].
223* ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'' has "Carrying You" as performed by Azumi Inoue in the end credits. Another example would be the ImageSong "If I Could Fly in the Sky" by Yohko Obata, which was used in some early promotional material but never played in the film itself nor was included in most soundtrack releases.
224* ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' has "Fire Treasure" in the opening credits and ending, being a much slower and more sombre song for the otherwise action-packed ''Franchise/LupinIII'' franchise.
225* ''Anime/TheCatReturns'' has the end credit song "Become the Wind" by Ayano Tsuji.
226* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzzkrwWbVHU Our Time Has Come]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vZYYRarQ0 I Do Believe]]", the former being a reprise of an upbeat version appearing in the opening credits.
227* Even ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' has one. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qDzwguORuE All I Know]]".
228* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-0KqJ5-85E What If]]" from 2001's ''WesternAnimation/ChristmasCarolTheMovie'', sung by Creator/KateWinslet.
229* "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''.
230* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq47keWS-TU "I Still Believe"]] from ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime''.
231* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' has the rather upbeat, but still very sappy, "[[https://youtu.be/I9EVr6jRlvU Raining Sunshine]]", performed by Creator/MirandaCosgrove.
232* ''Franchise/CuriousGeorge'''s [[WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge2006 2006 film]] has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqUdI4AIDF0 Upside Down]]" by Music/JackJohnson.
233* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpoW0fD60CU "Can Somebody Tell Me Who I Am"]] from the German version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}''.
234* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419704/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Donkey Xote]]'', more Spanish fare, has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fcq2dpPuKM Dónde Están Mis Sueños]]", a more energetic example of this trope.
235* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFN9dFVG2bc "Someone Like Me"]] from ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie'' and ''Theatre/DougLive''.
236* ''Anime/EarwigAndTheWitch'' has "The World is in My Hands" by Sherina Munaf (the Japanese voice of Earwig's mother), with an instrumental example in "Memories are Always Beautiful".
237* ''WesternAnimation/ElCidTheLegend'', a Spanish animated film, has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3odaFE7vXI The Power of a Broken Heart]]"; there are versions of the song in both Spanish and English.
238* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KABHbXaccmI My Funny Friend and Me]]", from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', performed by Music/{{Sting}}. It's also one of the [[CutSong few songs that actually remains in the movie in some fashion]], being used as the {{Leitmotif}} for the "good" side of Kuzco. Oscar-nominated.
239* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' has the traditional IWantSong "Waiting on a Miracle" as well as "Dos Oruguitas", which appears over a montage of [[spoiler:Abuela Alma and her husband]]. Neither has a pop version, but the latter has an English version that appears during the credits. And while both songs charted on the Hot 100, and "Oruguitas" was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe, they were overshadowed in popularity by the more upbeat "Surface Pressure" and ''especially'' "We Don't Talk About Bruno", both of which had Top 10 peaks, with the latter reaching the top position.
240* ''WesternAnimation/EquestriaGirls'':
241** The first film has the end credits song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6cDsySlEc A Friend for Life]]", sung by ''Canadian Idol'' Season 2 semifinalist Jerrica Santos, who later sang as Torch Song in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXw6T-Nlstc Find the Music in You]]" from the fourth season episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E14FilliVanilli Filli Vanilli]]".
242** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykOzD10kjos Shine Like Rainbows]]" from the end credits, and Sunset Shimmer's post-movie ImageSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqnbYUG6Bn8 My Past Is Not Today]]".
243** Continuing with the trend, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]]'' gives us "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwodCa4t7X4 What More Is Out There?]]" Although not an end credits song, it stylistically fits this trope.
244** And ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree Legend of Everfree]]'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyB1fXhH264 Embrace the Magic]]". It's notably Sunset Shimmer's first in-movie solo.
245* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_d0blzaSHI Don't You Worry]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheFearlessFour''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuC31QR1zvo It was also dubbed into English]] by James Ingram and Oleta Adams.
246** The original German version also has an AwardBait cover of an earlier song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=468ROeIf9Yw What Can Go Wrong?]]"
247* The German version of ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'' has the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtl2eEFJ3PQ "Something More Than Friends"]] sung by an unknown duet.
248* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV1K3FE1f8c A Dream Worth Keeping]]" from ''WesternAnimation/FernGully: The Last Rainforest'', performed by Sheena Easton. A little unusual in that it appears during a lovey-dovey sequence in the film and was ''not'' reprised over the end credits (instead the song in the credits is Music/EltonJohn's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLj569nl3uU Some Other World]]").
249* ''WesternAnimation/FreddieAsFRO7'' gives us "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwgWXO7pg7Y I'll Keep Your Dreams Alive]]", performed by George Benson and Patti Austin.
250* ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill'' has Aoi Teshima doing a new cover version of "Summer of Farewell", originally a theme song for an '80s dorama.
251* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk "Let It Go"]] from ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}''. The movie version is performed by Creator/IdinaMenzel (and as such, could be considered Disney's "[[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Defying Gravity]]"), while the end credits version is sung by Music/DemiLovato; most of the movie's popularity can be attributed to Menzel's version, however. Interestingly enough, this was planned as a ''VillainSong'' in early stages of the movie when Elsa was planned to make a FaceHeelTurn. In that case Anna's IWantSong "For The First Time In Forever" would be the AwardBaitSong.
252* ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' has ''three'', all of which have pop versions in the credits and on the soundtrack. "Into the Unknown", "All is Found" and "Lost in the Woods" have their credits versions sung by Music/PanicAtTheDisco, Music/KaceyMusgraves and Music/{{Weezer}} respectively. The first of the three got its Oscar nomination, but lost to "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from ''Film/Rocketman2019''.
253* ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' has "Home, Sweet Home" by Amelita Galli-Curci.
254* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhCwLpSmzOA Yo Viviré en tus Sueños]]" from ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458076/ The Hairy Tooth Fairy]]''. Also Spanish.
255* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU2hliMMf-k&t=2s Love Is the Reason]]" from ''WesternAnimation/HappilyEverAfter''.
256* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6v_gOmVJ4I "Go the Distance"]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', performed by Music/MichaelBolton, was Oscar-nominated but lost to "My Heart Will Go On".
257* ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdAt0ke9w8 Feel the Light]]", courtesy of Music/JenniferLopez.
258* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Z7dev6daw "Anytime You Need a Friend"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyfaKhQoq9I "Wherever The Trail May Lead"]] from ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange.''
259* ''Anime/HorusPrinceOfTheSun'' has Hilda's songs.
260* ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'' has "The Promise of the World" by Chieko Baisho, Sophie's Japanese voice.
261* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxt7rKV3z9c "Someday"]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. A CutSong from the body of the film. [[https://youtu.be/0pLCDnbBEk0 "God Help The Outcasts"]] is another example, though the RewrittenPopVersion sung by Music/BetteMidler is buried in the back of the end credits. The film's music got Best Score Golden Globe and Oscar nominations but no Best Song nods; this was at the point that people were getting tired of Disney's domination of the category and the bloom was off the rose for the animated features themselves.
262* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1'': The North American version doesn't have an awards bait song, but, in Japan, there's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPFsuPgoq58 Hitoshizuku]]" by Zone.
263* In Britain, ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THxo3tfHfsk Real Love]]" by Lee Ryan.
264* ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgg81aFMNco Home]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjUo3KT3mZA I Always Thought I'd See You Again]]", both by Tiffany (who also provided the voice for Judy). Also, a young Shane Sutton performs "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711AN-JhZps With You All the Way]]".
265* ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'' has two. Surprisingly, it was the end credits song "In The Belly Of The Whale" that was considered for Oscar nomination:
266** "It Cannot Be", the song Jonah sings about not wanting to go to Ninevah.
267** "Second Chances", the big musical number at the climax of the film, is an amazing number that gets the message of the film across. It helps that it was performed by Anointed.
268* ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' has two '70s pop songs from Yumi Matsutoya "Message in Rouge" and "If I Were Covered in Tenderness" as the opening and ending themes, respectively. There are also two [[ImageSong Image Songs]] by Azumi Inoue that are definitely Award-Bait Songs, "Turning Seasons" and "The Warmth of Magic", which would be included as instrumental versions in the film. Earlier releases of the American Disney dub additionally add in "Soaring" and "I'm Gonna Fly" from Sydney Forest, replacing the two Yumi Matsutoya songs, though these songs have since been removed in favour of the original Japanese songs.
269* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' has Music/ReginaSpektor's reworking of Music/TheBeatles' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zagM1Memfw While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]".
270* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGVQJKgqgY8 If We Hold On Together]]". Throughout the film, the song appears, eventually using Music/DianaRoss' vocal version -- over the end credits, naturally.
271** The fifth film, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeVTheMysteriousIsland The Mysterious Island]]'' has the gentle and plaintive "Always There".
272** The tenth film, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeXTheGreatLongneckMigration The Great Longneck Migration]]'', has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ol9V1aGYc "Best of Friends"]] by Music/OliviaNewtonJohn, a cover of another song heard in the film.
273* "[[https://youtu.be/Q4nvRPuUxzY Man's Road]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'', written by Music/JimmyWebb and performed by Music/{{America}}.
274* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q6rwP8u8EM Touch the Sky]]" by Wonderwall, from the 2004 film ''WesternAnimation/LaurasStar''. On a ''somewhat'' lesser scale, the song that plays over the GoodTimesMontage, "Stay."
275* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1hcc1QvM2Q Can You Feel the Love Tonight]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' continues to receive radio airplay even to this day. Oscar winner.
276** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QVuqxMvpyQ An alternate version]] from a Disney Sing-Along Songs video was performed in the standard "'90s Disney movie duet credits pop song" style; so far it has not shown up on any albums.
277** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ZnCT14nRc Circle of Life]]" is another, also nominated. Music/EltonJohn's single version still gets occasional radio airplay.
278* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' has two all-new songs that fit: "Spirit" by Music/{{Beyonce}}, who played Nala in the remake; and "Never Too Late" by Music/EltonJohn, who wrote all the songs of the original film (which all carried over to the remake).
279* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XhufW7-c_k Love Will Find a Way]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''.
280* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcWxiSUf6tw "Nothing Can Stop Us Now"]] from the 1991 DirectToVideo adaptation of ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould''.
281* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXKlJuO07eM Part Of Your World]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''. Like "Over the Rainbow" 50 years before, it almost became a CutSong -- because one boy yawned during the test screening. The director and the song's lyricist Howard Ashman fought tooth and nail to keep it, saying it was a bad idea to cut it because of "one snot-nosed brat". It wasn't nominated for the Oscar in favor of the more upbeat {{Sidekick Song}}s "Under the Sea" and "Kiss the Girl"; the former won. The tie-in album ''The Little Mermaid and Friends'' features an ImageSong for Ariel titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suoqDGNMX2g "One Dance"]]. The ScreenToStageAdaptation adds "Her Voice" and "One Step Closer". Both are sung by Eric, and the latter has him teaching the mute Ariel to dance. ''Film/TheLittleMermaid2023'' adds the MovieBonusSong "Wild Uncharted Waters" to the list, also sung by Eric.
282* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3gRigF1TIA Heaven Is]]" by Al Jarreau from ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicVoyage''.
283* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsT2URr1Igc Little Wonders]]" by Music/RobThomas and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1xaTkFG2oY Another Believer]]" by Rufus Wainwright, from ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons''.
284* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UpGDU9kFho How Far I'll Go]]" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''. Its reprise "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Lm1-W0jow I Am Moana]]" also qualifies, shifting the former from the IWantSong to an IAmSong.
285* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bawPIjdGCKo "Reflection"]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. Although not featured during the credits, the soundtrack album has a substantially longer cover version by Music/ChristinaAguilera.
286* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paXOkGMyG8M Rainbow]]" by Music/{{Sia}}, [[InkSuitActor starring as]] the pegasus popstar Songbird Serenade.
287* ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas'' has Akiko Yano's "Quit Being Alone" and a TranslatedCoverVersion of "Que Sera, Sera" performed by the cast.
288* ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' has the titular theme, "Mother" and "A Lost Child", both performed by Azumi Inoue, as well as "The Path of the Wind" performed by the Suginami Children's Choir. The former is played during the end credits of the film while the latter three songs are played as instrumental versions in the film.
289* ''Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' has the titular theme song performed by Narumi Yasuda, which does not play in the film itself but played prominently in promotional material. The film itself has instrumental examples with "Nausicaä - Requiem" during the climax of the film and "The Bird People" during the end credits. The first Cantonese dub also has "Green Water, Clear Wind", a Cantonese cover of "The Bird People" WithLyrics, performed by Sandy Lam (most known for singing a TranslatedCoverVersion of [[Film/TopGun "Take My Breath Away"]] for Creator/WongKarWai's first film ''As Tears Go By'').
290* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozdXAw-FO-c Always Come Back to You]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'', a RewrittenPopVersion of [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet's]] "Waltz of the Snowflakes".
291* The obscure ''Anime/OceanWaves'' has "If I Could Be the Sea" by Youko Sakamoto.
292* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnJPUThNfq8 Once Upon a Time with Me]]" from ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest''.
293* ''WebAnimation/OnYourMark'' was made as a music video to such a song from Chage & Aska (of ''[[Film/StreetFighter Street Fighter: The Movie]]'' fame)
294* ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' has "Love is a Flower, You Are the Seed" by Harumi Miyako, a TranslatedCoverVersion of Music/BetteMidler's "Film/TheRose".
295* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtrXzsJMsdY Meet Me in the Meadow]]" from ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason''.
296** A more straight example from this movie is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYJU5LPy88Q I Belong]]", particullarly the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvzuj7sLoS0 reprise used in the film]].
297* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM_k3XU65Rs Still]]" from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge''.
298* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dqMP3ao83g Whatever You Imagine]]" from ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster''.
299** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnCM1lcV_m4 Dream Away]]" only appears in the end credits.
300* ''Anime/PandaGoPanda'' has "Nennen Panda" by Ado Mizumori in ''The Rainy-Day Circus''.
301* The Japanese dub of ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' ends on a surprisingly melancholy note for a lighthearted family film: "[[http://everysongaday.tumblr.com/post/133541370701/ayaka-%E7%B5%A2%E9%A6%99-a-song-for-you A Song for You]]" by Ayaka. That said, it stands out as more of this trope than the two Music/MeghanTrainor songs featured in the North American release.
302* Barry Manilow strikes again with an end-credits cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa3PPyw95fM "Now and Forever"]] from ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'' with Sheena Easton.
303* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGbsrrkZm1s "Candle on the Water"]] from ''Film/PetesDragon1977'' received an Oscar nomination, but lost to the title tune from ''You Light Up My Life''.
304* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'''s "When You Wish Upon A Star" was the first Disney song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and has been covered by many artists since then. If the Walt Disney Company has a BootstrappedTheme, this is it.
305* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asETg3aAVE0 "If I Never Knew You"]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''. In the original theatrical version it was only featured during the end credits, as the animated sequence didn't perform well with the test audiences.
306** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbuzskVs6rc Colors of the Wind]]" took the 1995 Oscar.
307** The sequel has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8dQLDo9XSI Between Two Worlds]]", by Judy Kuhn and Creator/BillyZane.
308* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT-sC33vB5M "Believe"]], from ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'', was Josh Groban's first encounter with this trope. Oscar-nominated.
309* ''Anime/PomPoko'' has "In This Town of Asia" and "Always, Someone Is", both performed by Shang Shang Typhoon. The former is only used in the film's marketing while the latter is the end credit theme.
310* While the titular theme of ''Anime/{{Ponyo}}'' may not count, the ImageSong "Rondo of the House of Sunflowers" by Mai Hisaishi, which plays in the film as an instrumental version, definitely does.
311* ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure: The Search for Christopher Robin'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vi_2-a2hi4 Wherever You Are]]". Attached to a DirectToVideo Winnie-the-Pooh movie that got a mixed critical reception, it failed to get nominated for any awards, though it's since become one of Disney's most popular songs of this type from the '90s.
312** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e71sKRsRLk The More I Look Inside]]" from ''Piglet's Big Movie''.
313* ''Anime/PorcoRosso'' has a cover version of "Le Temps de Cerises" and the original song "Once In a While, Talk of the Old Days" both by Tokiko Kato, Gina's voice actress. The film also has instrumental examples with "Bygone Days" and "Porco e Bella"
314* Music/MariahCarey and Music/WhitneyHouston's "Dueling Divas" collaboration, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxIN79n4jVo When You Believe]]" from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''. (The version featured in the film is performed by Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Sally Dworsky.) It won the 1998 Oscar over two other examples of the trope, "[[Film/Armageddon1998 I Don't Wanna]] [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Miss a Thing]]" and "The Prayer".
315** There's also "I Will Get There", performed by Music/BoyzIIMen. There's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN4wswGT9Vg acapella version that closes out the end credits and is on the offical soundtrack album]], and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY5QgpgrJP0 R&B/pop version featured in the "Inspirational" soundtrack]].
316* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H93uiSYOeOk Never Knew I Needed]]" by Ne-Yo. It's a little more R&B than previous examples, but then you hear that ''synthy sparkle''. Ahhh...
317* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5p5dDY5rMM My Kingdom of the Heart]]" from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndThePea.''
318* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' has the titular theme, sang by Mai Hisaishi (composer Joe Hisaishi's daughter) in the [[ImageSong Image Album]], Yoshikazu Mera in the Japanese version of the film, and Sasha Lazard in the English version of the film.
319* Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK5VulNn3so The Prayer]]" from ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot''. Nominated for an 1998 Oscar and won a Golden Globe, but this was almost solely because it was a BreakawayPopHit -- in the film itself, Dion's solo performance is shoehorned into an action sequence. (The film had a MidDevelopmentGenreShift.)
320* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XJxkD4YFdA Rainbow Brite and Me]]" from ''[[WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer]]''. An edited version went on to be used in the credits of the TV series.
321* ''WesternAnimation/RayaAndTheLastDragon'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08o44cr3ww Lead the Way]]" sung by Music/JheneAiko, blasting ThePowerOfTrust.
322* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u6n-eLrth8 Someone's Waiting For You]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''.
323* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw0AAs7iUXA Telling The World]]" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}''.
324* Renée Fleming's beautiful "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTy0sOb3nsI Still Dream]]" from ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians''.
325* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MUYfx6QN0 Someday Out of the Blue]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOYYF8zTe0 Without Question]]", both performed by Music/EltonJohn.
326* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973''
327** [[https://youtu.be/7ZhmCEVFnIE "Love"]] was nominated for an Oscar, and later featured in other media, such as ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' as well as Amazon's 2023 Super Bowl ad "Saving Sawyer". Notably, it was one of the few newly written songs not written or sung by Music/RogerMiller.
328** "Not in Nottingham" is another example, this one actually performed by Miller.
329* ''Literature/RonjaTheRobbersDaughter'' has the "Wolf Song".
330* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75rrBWmbGh4 Show Me the Light]]" from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1998''. Sung by the team from ''Film/DirtyDancing'', Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes!
331* The first ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' [[WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie movie]] had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_TyO0PEwpo Take Me There]]" by Mya Ft. Blackstreet, Mase, & Blinky Blink and "[[https://youtu.be/tSHziBWupKo I Throw My Toys Around]]" by No Doubt, the [[WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis second film]] had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C-v1BxkIW4 When You Love]]" by Sinead O'Connor. No Oscar nomination for either -- at least one newspaper review expected the latter to be [[AwardSnub snubbed]] for "Where Are You, Christmas?" (see Film -- Live-Action), but that song wasn't nominated either.
332** Music/DavidBowie originally wrote ''Safe'' -- which went on to be the B-side for his 2002 single ''[[Music/{{Heathen}} Everyone Says 'Hi']]'' -- for the first film, it ultimately went unused in favor of "Take Me There".
333* Parodied in the Mexican animated film ''[[Franchise/ElSantos El Santos Contra La Tetona Mendoza]]'' with the theme song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vnFjWs9Qks Zombilaridad]]", ("Zombie-larity" in Spanish), who is a parody of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc4_t9eRNn8 Solidaridad]]", a propaganda song used by the PRI (A political party in Mexico) in the '90s.
334* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry1DdghJkD4 In Your Arms]]" from ''The Scarecrow''.
335* While not an original song and thus ineligible for awards, the original ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' uses Music/LeonardCohen's "Hallelujah" (as performed by John Cale) as its award bait-style song. That said, ''Shrek'' actually ''does'' have an original award bait song, but it's on the back end of the credits and was overlooked: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmizRH3hfYQ It Is You]]", which also uses the tune of the movie's instrumental theme "TrueLovesKiss".
336* ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' has "Once Upon a Dream".
337* ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'' is a great example of this with the song "[[https://youtu.be/EcAnOTDeMjw You Will Always Find Me In Your Heart]]" performed by Shaley Scott.
338* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the film that launched the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, has "[[https://youtu.be/4bFQUpbNi4M Some Day My Prince Will Come]]".
339** And then the song got a [[https://youtu.be/SPGobe_Irvw cover version]] to coincide with the Diamond Edition re-release of the movie which brings the song up to the same sparkly synth standards as other songs of this trope from the Disney Renaissance era.
340** [[https://youtu.be/B0mURZzBpnE The cover released for the Platinum Edition]] even moreso.
341* Naturally, ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' took this one on with Satan's big ballad, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnjmykNSF6g Up There]]", which specifically lampoons "Part of Your World" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' and "Out There" from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''.
342** A more traditional example is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RDawsvEh_Q Through the Eyes of a Child]]", played over the back half of the end credits. It's performed by Michael [=McDonald=] of the Doobie Brothers and only slowly tips its hand with lyrics like "Sure, life is kinda gay/But it doesn't seem that way/Through the eyes of a child".
343** Ironically, it was "Blame Canada" that was nominated for the Oscar... and it lost to the aforementioned "You'll Be in My Heart". ([[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Matt and Trey]] did not react to this well...) That this was nominated over "Up There" is even funnier given that the latter is about the only song in the entire film lacking profanity. The idea of "Blame Canada" even being performed at the Oscars was a bit controversial back in 2000 due to the lyrics, but Creator/RobinWilliams was equally awesome and hilarious singing it!
344---->'''Robin Williams:''' ''Because when Canada is gone, there'll be no more Music/CelineDion!''
345* ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' has Yumi Kimura's "Always With Me" (played during the end credits) and "The Name of Life" (which only plays in the film as an instrumental version). Other examples would be the ImageSong "White Dragon" performed by Rikki (of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX "Suteki da ne"]] fame), and the instrumental song "Reprise", during the climax of the film.
346* ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'' arguably has several of these, but there are two that fit best -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkDohByYhIw Here I Am]]", the opening song that also plays over the end credits, and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8bH1WjhekU I Will Always Return]]", the finale. And to top it off, BOTH are sung by Music/BryanAdams.
347** Meanwhile, its pseudo-sequel ''WesternAnimation/SpiritUntamed'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nfN-FCFc2g Fearless]]" by Isabela Merced. There's also a Spanish duet version featuring Eiza González that plays during the credits too.
348* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' has two which qualify: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApXoWvfEYVU Sunflower]]" by Swae Lee and Music/PostMalone, as well as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88LVU7MAe4 What's up Danger]]" by Blackway and Black Caviar.
349* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZE1Fh1AgWQ The Best Day Ever]]". Let's see... Sparkly synth? Check. Moving lyrics (the term "The Best Day Ever" could symbolize [=SpongeBob=] getting his manager placement at the end of the film)? Check. Backing vocals for the chorus? Check. TruckDriversGearChange? Check. Yup, this one qualifies.
350* Played straight by "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw_yL1apnKE Far Longer Than Forever]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', which rips off "Beauty and the Beast" to the point that they almost have the same melody on their respective title lines! That Regina Belle and Jeffrey Osborne handle the end credit reprise -- just like the former did for ''Aladdin'' -- doesn't help.
351** "Eternity", performed by Japanese group Dreams Come True, has an English-language version played over the second half of the end credits. The Japanese-language version of the song is the one that got a music video, though.
352** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDNLaBDivo Magic of Love]]" from ''The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain''.
353** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNWtxayz0M Because I Love Her]]" from "The Swan Princess: The Mystery Of The Enchanted Kingdom".
354* ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'' has "When I Remember This Life" by Kazumi Nikaido, with instrumental examples in "Flying" and "The Procession of Celestial Beings".
355* ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea'' has two examples from Aoi Teshima (Therru's Japanese voice actress): "Therru's Song" and "Song of Time".
356* ''WesternAnimation/{{Talespin}}'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiJZ0vS1A8 Home is Where the Heart Is]]" which was used in the uncut version of the pilot and is sadly edited out of the syndicated release of the episode. There's also a full-length version as can be heard in the link, which was available on the Disney Afternoon soundtrack.
357* There's no cover of it during the credits, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMJFxFZgc_8 "I See The Light"]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' certainly counts. The UK release adds a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCadsU20gkI cover.]]
358* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIVaUcE4kAM You'll Be In My Heart]]" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', courtesy of Music/PhilCollins. 1999 Oscar winner.
359* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcfbF2qfsxk A Boy Needs a Dog]]" from the feature film of ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' is more or less a parody of these types of numbers. Though the mood ''is'' played straight in the reprise, it is not played in the credits, nor was it nominated for any awards.
360* The ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' FinaleMovie has "A Boy Needs a Dog", an emotionally-driven number where Spot and Leonard spell out the importance of their bond.
361* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' parodies this trope with "[[https://youtu.be/uaQCMg-QGNU The End Of An Act]]".
362* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'' [[AffectionateParody playfully lampoons]] these types of songs with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6vGFXdnrAA Upbeat Inspirational Song About Life]]". For extra parody kick, it features Music/MichaelBolton.
363->''It's the kick in the pants you needed''
364->''This song will open up your eyes''
365->''It's the feeling you can't be defeated''
366->''It's an 80's song with synthy vibes''
367->''And you know it's super... upbeat, upbeat...''
368* Thanks to ExecutiveMeddling that insisted on [[{{Disneyfication}} shoehorning the film into a Disney formula]], the theatrical cuts of ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' contain not one but two of these: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnGAkNH5aVs Am I Feeling Love?]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvnXY7OICQE It's So Amazing]]".
369* ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina|1994}}'' has this with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Z3uT-gGiI "Let Me Be Your Wings"]], with co-writer Music/BarryManilow and Debra Byrd handling end-credit duties. (In an odd inversion, the comedy number "[[https://youtu.be/JMXLbQ3ujBU Marry the Mole]]" won a Razzie for Worst Song, the only animated feature that can claim such a "feat".)
370* ''WesternAnimation/TheTiggerMovie'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3e-cbGEAhg "Your Heart Will Lead You Home"]] by Music/KennyLoggins.
371* ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' just wouldn't be a complete knockoff of the Creator/JamesCameron hit without its own sappy ballad, and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_OgED1oipQ Holding Me]]" delivers.
372* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itOZsFQ7qds Do I Miss You?]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jPuqczIrg0 All in How Much We Give]]", the latter of which is a closer example of this.
373* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0j1EHF8Y0 "When She Loved Me"]] from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', sung by Music/SarahMcLachlan. Lost the Oscar to "You'll Be in My Heart".
374* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' has "The Touch" by Stan Bush, the franchise's unofficial theme song.
375* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC3PidaLO08 I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme)]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', by John Rzeznik of the Music/GooGooDolls.
376* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' with [[https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jbYIS2Gk5g "1 True Love"]] performed by the in-universe boy band 4*Town.
377* ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqejPJ13kqw Unbreakable]]", which bears a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong suspiciously similar melody]] to Golden Globe winner "This Is Me" from ''Film/TheGreatestShowman''. Chances of the song being nominated for any major awards is slim, considering the film's overall negative reviews and [[BoxOfficeBomb commercial disappointment]].
378* "What We Gonna Do?" and "Do the Right Thing" from ''The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A WesternAnimation/VeggieTales Movie''. They both are very upbeat and catchy.
379* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTQD0weUTF8 "Down to Earth"]], by Music/PeterGabriel, from ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. Lost the 2008 Oscar to ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'', whose two songs surprisingly didn't cancel each other out like ''Enchanted'''s three did.
380* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODq81_cDKI Bright Eyes]]", from ''Literature/WatershipDown'', sung by [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Art Garfunkel]]. Also a TearJerker on several levels (it was originally written for a cancer patient), and in the actual film it underscores a DisneyAcidSequence.
381* ''Anime/WhenMarnieWasThere'' has "Fine on the Outside" by Priscilla Ahn.
382* ''Anime/WhisperOfTheHeart'' has a TranslatedCoverVersion of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads", as sang by Yoko Honna, Shizuku's voice actress. Another example would be "The Baron's Song", also performed by Yoko Honna.
383* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtT3xSSKmMQ Father and Daughter]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrysMovie'' by Paul Simon. Yes, ''[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel that]]'' Paul Simon. Oscar-nominated.
384* Creator/RankinBass's ''WesternAnimation/TheWindInTheWillows1985'' has its eponymous [[https://youtu.be/rj651NUM5_8?si=cuf4eH5v2ahjw2Ba main theme]] by Judy Collins.
385* ''Anime/TheWindRises'' has Yumi Matsutoya's '70s hit "Vapor Trail" as the AwardBaitSong. An instrumental example would be Nahoko's leitmotif throughout the film.
386* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'', Disney's MilestoneCelebration film for the company's centennial that actually was partially inspired by "When You Wish Upon a Star" and incorporates its melody into the score as part of numerous CompanyCrossReferences (one character [[WaxingLyrical later notes]] "a dream is a wish your heart makes", too), has two: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCofb-qQxKc "This Wish"]] (which gets the choral reprise in universe) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_7I6Rne_ls "A Wish Worth Making"]] (which gets the end credits, though it appeared in a DeletedScene). No nominations; in fact common complaint about the songs and film as a whole was that they were ''so'' focused on hitting all the "traditional" Disney animation tropes that they ended up generic.
387* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyOTV8rqM9Q Time Will Tell]]" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}''.
388* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4NNiTrcizg "When Can I See You Again?"]] from ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', performed by Music/OwlCity. It's a bit more upbeat than most examples, but it's still got plenty of synth...
389* "It's All Too Much" caps off the animated bulk of ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''. While the song itself didn't get any Grammy nods, the soundtrack did get nominated for Outstanding Original Score for Motion Picture or Television. It should also be considered that "It's All Too Much" was not composed specifically for the film; it was one of four songs done during the Sgt. Pepper sessions (the others being "All Together Now", "Only a Northern Song" and "Hey Bulldog") that Music/JohnLennon had delivered to Heinz Edelmann at TVC-London with a note that read "Can you use any of these?"
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393* ''Series/BlueSwat'' has one for its opening theme, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-wkkSn52E True Dream]]".
394* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' parodied this in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling}} Once More, with Feeling]]", when Anya complained that her song with Xander would "never be a BreakawayPopHit". That would be reserved for Tara's "Under Your Spell".
395* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' usually just does covers, but they also churned out a few original songs that qualify as award baity: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb7dyVtdRlg&ob=av3e Get It Right]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqlrWLG5fIg Pretending]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEwTe8LMCyI As Long As You're There]]".
396* Series/HiFive, a [[FollowTheLeader competitor]] to Music/TheWiggles, has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOY6wgD8VEc ''Three Wishes'']] (which is interesting considering that The Wiggles have [[AvertedTrope never really done one themselves]]).
397* "[[https://youtu.be/2qvwq8ecDwM Don't Forget Me]]", the finale song to ''Series/{{Smash}}''.
398* On ''Series/JohnnyAndTheSprites'', the songs were all written by composers from Broadway shows, many of them Tony award-winners. Of all the songs they've written for this show, "Brightly Shining" stands out as the most blatant example of Award Bait. (It was going to be part of a stage show entitled ''Magical Holiday'', but that was canceled and {{retool}}ed as a more general non-holiday-themed stage show.)
399* "Our World" and "When The River Meets The Sea" from ''Literature/EmmetOttersJugBandChristmas''. Both were composed by Music/PaulWilliams two years before he did "Rainbow Connection" for ''Film/TheMuppetMovie''.
400* ''Series/MiamiVice'' started season 3 with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUP8_92JvI "The Last Unbroken Heart"]] by Music/PattiLaBelle and Music/ChicagoBand's Bill Champlin.
401* ''Series/{{Roundhouse}}'' has a few, notably "I Can Dream", "Don't Wanna Play Games", "The Bridge", "If I Give You My Heart", "Trying To Reach You", "Sunrise", "Do Not Care", "Have A Little Faith", "Give Me A Second Chance", "Just A Dream" and "Can't Let Go". The first and last named songs won Best Song trophies from the Cable ACE Awards and the Youth Excellence Awards respectively. "Just a Dream", on the other hand, wouldn't be eligible for any such awards, as it was written by Music/{{Madonna}} independently of the show, but she never recorded it (lyrically it wouldn't sound too out of place on ''Music/LikeAPrayer''). Neither would "The Bridge", which was written by the show's primary musical director Benny Hester and [[OlderThanTheyThink dates back to 1978]], 15 years before it was performed on the show.
402* Overlapping with BreakawayPopHit, Music/CelineDion's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLeYvefzUFA To Love You More]]" was originally written for the 1995 Japanese drama ''Koibito Yo'' (My Dear Lover). The Japanese version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7WesH505uc has since made its way to Website/YouTube]].
403* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'':
404** "[[https://youtu.be/0yf-KrdaVis Thank You For Being You]]" from the Season 1 finale, "Noah's Leaving", could be considered this. So much so, that Dennis Scott wrote a RewrittenPopVersion for a tribute album to another Creator/PBSKids show, ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'', in 2005, which would be re-recorded again for another ''Mister Rogers'' tribute album 14 years later.
405** From the Season 2 finale, there's "[[https://youtu.be/OjLYr8NDbb0 One Goodbye At A Time]]".
406** Another song that qualifies is "[[https://youtu.be/bsaHx82VFGE The Friend You've Found in Me]]", a song about friendship.
407* ''The Green Balloon Club'' has the song "[[https://youtu.be/WzySlARkbnY It's Our World]]" which teaches children how to keep the planet clean.
408* ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'' has "[[https://youtu.be/Ee-4lOi3oPM Aozora ni Naru]]" by Jin Hashimoto.
409* ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' caps off its final episode with Yui's character song, "[[https://youtu.be/9KiZMK_hZLE INORI]]".
410* ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' has "[[https://youtu.be/a78Az-DNF20 Healing You]]" by Salia.
411* The ''Free To Be... You And Me'' TV special has "[[https://youtu.be/huUgDYRBGj4 Circle of Friends]]", a fireside song about ThePowerOfFriendship performed by Creator/MarloThomas, Creator/KrisKristofferson, Rita Coolidge, and the rest of the cast.
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415* If you don't think Music/WeirdAlYankovic has parodied this, you must not know Weird Al very well! Peep your ears at "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht7jyza6zSQ I Need a Nap]]". "Sparkle synth?" Check. Soulful duet? [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] TruckDriversGearChange? Check. [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong Passing melodic resemblance to]] "[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Part of Your World?]]" Check!
416** Also "Don't Download This Song", a style parody of the forementioned "We Are the World".
417* ''#1 Radio Single by'' by Psychostick describes how to write just such a song.
418--> ''Whoooa yeah. whooooie oh, oh yeah. Whooooa yeah. Whoa whoa yeah, whoooa yeah''\
419''This is the part of the song where I talk about emotions.''\
420''This is the part of the song where [[TrueArtIsAngsty I sing about how I feel so cold inside]].''\
421''And this is where my producer told me to say, "Yeah!"''
422* Music/{{Cascada}} - "Everytime We Touch" (candlelight version) and "Another You"
423* USA for Africa's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7fPpxAnuM We Are the World]]"
424* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5cX_ncZLls Do They Know It's Christmas]]" by Band Aid, with excessive amounts of Sparkle Synth.
425* Heart's "Alone", Carrie Underwood's version even more so.
426* Music/{{Foreigner|Band}}'s "I Want to Know What Love Is", and Music/MariahCarey's CoverVersion, which includes a TruckDriversGearChange.
427* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0tg0ixFtZc Fly on the Wings of Love]] by the Olsen Brothers.
428* DHT - "Listen to Your Heart" ([[SofterAndSlowerCover unplugged version]]), and for an original song, there's "My Dream".
429* "Sea of Stars", "Town Circus" and [[http://www.spacesynth.de/musics/shining_christmas_star.mp3 "Shining Christmas Star"]] by [=mindXpander=] are of the instrumental type.
430* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJxrX42WcjQ&ob=av3e You Raise Me Up]]", no matter who is singing it.
431* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96aAx0kxVSA&ob=av3n One Moment in Time]]" by Whitney Houston
432* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAeIOhGfZV0 Can't We Try]]", anyone?
433* "From A Distance", written as a fairly simple FolkMusic piece, but Creator/BetteMidler's hit version unabashedly goes in this direction.
434* Sash has also made a song that fits this trope perfectly called "[[https://youtu.be/URWATk5_Sxg Just Around the Hill]]".
435* Halfway through ''Hadestown'' is "Why We Build the Wall," a sequence of Hades brainwashing the dead into thinking the wall is keeping them free... by explaining that the impoverished living are trying to get in. You know, the living who can get in at any time. Even for brainwashing, it makes little sense, but ''perfect'' sense played out of context as a commentary on capitalist ethics... especially since it doesn't contain a single mention of the album's mythological elements other than the unidentified wall.
436* Music/KellyClarkson - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8p9nEepT8 "A Moment Like This"]], winner of the first season of ''Series/AmericanIdol''.
437** Arguably, all the ''American Idol'' coronation songs qualify as award bait.
438* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject has a number of songs that could be considered baitworthy. A few notable examples include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J753jKeUCYg "The Same Old Sun"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgmzzDWUJ94 "Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ADVgYfcY_Y "Time"]], just to name a few.
439* "Winner" by the Music/PetShopBoys.
440* "After the Fall" and "This Is Who You Are" from Music/TransSiberianOrchestra's RockOpera ''Music/BeethovensLastNight'' are hard-rock takes on the award bait song.
441* Music/TheBangles' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYNJ8DzL1Q Eternal Flame]]".
442* Parodied in Music/{{Ylvis}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaEnaoydUUo Someone Like Me]]", which alternates between a Disney-style romance ballad and a dubstep breakdown.
443* "Sleeping Sun" by Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}
444* Komar, Melamid, and Dave Soldier invoked this with "[[Music/ThePeoplesChoiceMusic The Most Wanted Song]]," which was literally based upon survey results about what people liked and disliked in their songs--down to the keychange! The counterpart "Most Unwanted Song" is anything but.
445* Music/PinkFloyd of all bands did a few of these later: "On the Turning Away" is a very straight example, while "Lost for Words" subverts this with award bait music but LyricalDissonance, including a PrecisionFStrike. "Marooned", an {{instrumental|s}}, was an untwisted variant of this: it actually won them their only Grammy.
446* "Just Give Me a Reason" by Music/{{Pink}} and Nate Ruess of Music/fun.
447* "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", whether the Music/CelineDion version, or the duet with Music/MeatLoaf and Marion Raven. Really, any PowerBallad written by Music/JimSteinman would qualify.
448* Even Music/RushBand did one. Listen to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wztuqskio8 The Garden]]".
449* "All I Ask" by Music/{{Adele}}.
450* Music/{{Vaults}}' cover of "One Day I'll Fly Away", which is based on the ''Film/MoulinRouge'' version.
451* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXaLu7bvke8 Happy Xmas (War Is Over)]]" by Music/JohnLennon & Music/YokoOno.
452* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Q5op1wmtU Close Your Eyes]]" by UsefulNotes/{{synthwave}} project The Rain Within.
453* Mike Mareen's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YKrs4hbm20 Peace to Mankind]]"
454* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaZK2h_oroY Here In My Heart]]" is sung by Creator/JodiBenson (the voice of [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ariel]]) for the Christian children's album, ''Songs From The Beginner's Bible''.
455* The Caramella Girls, formerly Music/{{Caramell}} of "Caramelldansen" fame, give us "[[https://youtu.be/VXoCQ_-bpM4 How Can You Say Goodbye?]]", a Eurovision-worthy love ballad with the traditional award bait characteristics, including a TruckDriversGearChange at the end.
456* Believe it or not, ''Music/GreenDay'', of all bands, wrote one. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulRXvH8VOl8 Wake Me Up When September Ends]]". The lyrics tell the stories of Billie Joe's father, who died when he was younger.
457* UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}} queen NINA's ''Synthian'' album concludes with the arena-style power ballad "[[https://youtu.be/h3sn2P3BANg The Distance]]", an ode to a long distance relationship especially relevant during the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic.
458* "[[https://youtu.be/uBmuC7jeNko Now I'm Alive]]" by Michael Oakley & Dana Jean Phoenix is a love letter to classic award bait ballads, complete with a mellow intro, sparkling keyboards, ThePowerOfLove, a soaring synthesizer solo, and a TruckDriversGearChange leading to the epic finale.
459* Faith Assembly have a textbook example in the form of "[[https://youtu.be/oYVsofMlIgc Rian]]", the finale track of their debut album ''Shades of Blue''.
460* Blixemi's Literature/WarriorCats fan song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU-bawSp9Rw Sink Away]] fits this, with the [[TearJerker tear-jerking]] lyrics that build up to a triumphant conclusion, as well as lyrics that talk about love and hope without any mention of cats living in clans or other direct indication it is about ''Literature/WarriorCats''.
461* Country-pop singer Sylvia (Hutton) presents "[[https://youtu.be/GU7XTUIUyJE Surprise]]", from her 1984 album of the same name.
462* Music/{{Chicago}}'s "Hard Habit to Break" is another solid example.
463* Music/MichaelBolton's "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You".
464* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTkVG6lWvwY Home]]" by Kit Chan zigzags this trope. [[https://hear65.bandwagon.asia/articles/5-things-you-might-not-have-known-about-national-day-song-home The song was originally composed for a national music festival in Singapore which had a music contest component;]] it also bears all the classic hallmarks of an Award Bait Song. However, although the song did not receive any awards, [[GrowingTheBeard it soon took on a second life as perhaps Singapore's most iconic patriotic song]] after it was used in the 1998 National Day Parade.
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468* Wrestling/{{Goldust}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb_jOrZKa_k theme]], true to his film-obsessed gimmick, sounds like an instrumental mashup between an award bait song and a more traditional symphonic score.
469* Wrestling/ShawnMichaels was injured at one point in a real life altercation in which he suffered a concussion in the mid-90s. He ''collapsed'' mid-match a few weeks later and when the medical report on why it happened came out, it was revealed that he was suffering from post-concussion syndrome. Apparently the doctors (and for that matter pretty much ''everyone'') FailedASpotCheck, since nobody knew about this at the time, and even Shawn thought he was back to full health at the time. Anyway, it was briefly feared that Shawn would be forced to retire due to the incident both in-universe and out. To really drive home the point that Shawn's career might be in jeopardy, they aired a special tribute video set to an award bait song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NBVn6Ns84I "Tell Me a Lie"]].
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473* CBS has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw-8MFg9WIg "One Shining Moment"]], which is traditionally played over a final montage at the end of the NCAA basketball tournament. It was originally intended as a closing montage song for Super Bowl XXI, but the broadcast was running too long and it had to be cut for time. A few months later, CBS decided to re-purpose it (with amended lyrics) for the NCAA tournament, where it has been played ever since.
474* Creator/{{CTV}} had one for its UsefulNotes/OlympicGames coverage, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyUBdukE0M I Believe]]", which was its official "anthem" for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and also used as the basis for its main theme music. The song was used practically everywhere, from commercials, to montages, and of course, the closing ceremonies. It quickly became a pet peeve for many viewers, especially the ones who wished Creator/{{CBC}} hadn't had the Olympics swiped from under them like CTV also did with the ''Series/HockeyNightInCanada'' theme (CBC did get the Olympics back in 2014, though).
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478* "The Song That Goes Like This" from ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'' is largely a spoof of this type of song, as well as Creator/AndrewLloydWebber ballads (there's some overlap between them stylistically); "Find Your Grail," meanwhile, plays it straighter, albeit with the Lady of the Lake hamming it up.
479* Most of the ballads in ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'', in particular "This Is the Moment" and "A New Life", seem written ''only'' to be showstopping applause getters.
480* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMBcTGJ4YM "Defying Gravity"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQJaZO2nfGg "For Good"]] from ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''. Idina Menzel also recorded a [[RewrittenPopVersion pop single version]] of the former.
481* "Say It Somehow" from ''Theatre/TheLightInThePiazza''.
482* "Seasons of Love" from ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'', to the point where the original cast album has, after the show's finale, a version of the song "featuring Stevie Wonder and the cast of ''Rent''."
483** Also, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvfsWj__G8M Your Eyes]]", and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vaiIkFA5I reprise of "I'll Cover You"]], which overlays the chorus of "Seasons of Love" in its last part.
484* The incarnation of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YUta_xksiY "Chase The Morning"]] from the 2002 stage play version of ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''. It had to be changed drastically for the film ''because'' it was too much of an Award Bait Song.
485* If ever there was a theatrical analogue to Disney, it's Creator/AndrewLloydWebber:
486** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L6rEm0rnY "Memory"]], from ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''.
487** ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' has two: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imv-7F8zHy4 "Music of the Night"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GuK0kshNo "All I Ask of You"]]. "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" comes in as a close runner-up, but it stands alone without reprise, whereas the former two are not only called back several times, but run together in the finale.
488** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3JLQXvbApA "Close Every Door"]] from ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat''.
489*** Not to mention [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpuc2-RUf4s "Any Dream Will Do"]] which even gets a big-finale reprise.
490** ''Theatre/StarlightExpress'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7pBJVAQWYI the Starlight Sequence]] and its titular song, which was dialed up with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rgX9tlF8Bk the El [=DeBarge=] cover]].
491** ''Theatre/{{Evita}}'' (and {{Music/Madonna}}) give us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Spy3Nd2D6w "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"]].
492* ''Vanities: The Musical'' has three potential candidates: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=317uQH1YoC0 "Looking Good"]], the closing jazz ballad of the Theatreworks and Second Stage productions, as well as the original cast album, includes ThePowerOfFriendship and a triumphant last verse and chorus following a TruckDriversGearChange. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eoMAgYmNh0 "Friendship Isn't What It Used To Be"]], although [[LyricalDissonance lyrically darker]], also qualifies. And of course, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwM-toAsrvs Cute Boys with Short Haircuts]]".
493* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reGP8h5JD-o "The Letter"]] from the elementary school musical ''Freedom Bound'' by Jill and Michael Gallina.
494* "Fantasies Come True" from ''Theatre/AvenueQ'', also doubling as a major TearJerker.
495* "Tomorrow" from ''Theatre/{{Annie}}''.
496* ''First Date'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw0ZdVsBdzc "Things I Never Said"]], a [[PosthumousCharacter posthumous duet]] with Aaron's late mother; and "Something That Will Last", Aaron and Casey's FinalLoveDuet.
497* "Somewhere" from ''Theatre/WestSideStory''.
498* "Last Midnight" in ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'' is a possible example, though it does forward the plot.
499* "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Stars" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''. The 2012 film versions are especially {{tear jerker}}s.
500* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil has these occasionally, including:
501** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikVL5NV-XfY "Kalimando"]] from ''Mystere'', later [[RecycledSoundtrack reused]] in the film ''Bogus''.
502** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhp3lH8u9v8 "Let Me Fall"]] from ''Theatre/{{Quidam}}''.
503** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3bNRkl8pJc "Reve Rouge"]] from ''Theatre/LaNouba''.
504** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Vxjgjp4HA "Alegria"]] and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QB3fLE_O9k Querer]]" from ''Theatre/{{Alegria}}''.
505** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5rWZtI7BMg "Vocea"]] from ''Theatre/{{Varekai}}''.
506** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjFT34EtJ-Q "Hope"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdnAfnss4pk "Run"]] from ''Theatre/{{Amaluna}}''.
507** [[https://youtu.be/dsWwwXkj5IY "Cierra los ojos"]] from ''Theatre/{{Luzia}}'', the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3sTwGrmQAk live version]] more so.
508** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss8JPR9o_cI "To the Stars"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d_8-WcTZ9s "Inside Me"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdfhjrLOxoA "The Change"]] from ''Theatre/{{Volta}}'' all meet the criteria, but the one that really takes the cake is [[https://youtu.be/syiYoRQZYQA "Because You're Still Here"]], added to the show in late 2018 [[InMemoriam in memory of aerialist Yann Arnaud]].
509* ''Film/{{Flashdance}}: TheMusical'' has a romance duet of this style titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCexQVW_xQ "Here And Now"]], which also incorporates a reprise of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nz3P50BGw "Don't Stop"]]. The BetaCouple also gets one with "Remember Me".
510* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjZo4wTHJUI "You Have Brought Me Love"]], from the [[ScreenToStageAdaptation stage musical adaptation]] of ''Film/SecondhandLions''.
511* "Something To Believe In" from Disney's [[ScreenToStageAdaptation stage musical adaptation]] of ''Film/{{Newsies}}'' hits all the major stylistic points, including calm piano opening, synth sparkles and dramatic modulations.
512* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9bpRFFpDoc "Somewhere That's Green"]] from ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''.
513** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DD7VIKZnGA "Suddenly Seymour"]] also counts. In fact, the writers knew they could write a vaguer version of the song ("Suddenly Someone") and sell it as a pop hit, but they refused because they knew it wasn't true to the characters.
514* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze2TmFy0bm0 Just One Person]]", originating in a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''-inspired musical called ''Snoopy: The Musical''. Creator/JimHenson had stated it to be his all-time favorite song, so much so, [[InMemoriam it would eventually go on to be used at]] [[MeaningfulFuneral his funeral]].
515* ''[[Theatre/{{Matilda}} Matilda: The Musical]]'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyTI71P78D8 "I'm Here"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZIcq_xKM_c "My House"]], the former of which is reprised in [[CounterpointDuet counterpoint]] at the latter's climax.
516** [[IWantSong "When I Grow Up"]] also qualifies.
517* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PNwipI-LGM "Some Other Me"]] and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoeBOzvNN1k Always Starting Over"]] from ''Theatre/IfThen''.
518* The infamous 1988 musical version of ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' would have had an example of this in "Unsuspecting Hearts", if the existence if a "pop version" demo is any indication.
519* TheMusical of ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'' has "How Could I Ever Know", an [[TheElevenOClockNumber eleventh hour]] [[FinalLoveDuet duet]] between Archie and [[TheLostLenore Lily]]'s ghost.
520* "It's A Giant Mystery" and "Without You" from ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion: TheMusical''.
521* The Broadway musical of ''ComicBook/FunHome'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHk3o_Yqzzg "Ring of Keys"]], which was the producers' showcase number at the 2015 Tony Awards where the show won Best Musical. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG1NE9EWK8g "Changing My Major"]] also qualifies.
522* ''[[Theatre/{{Heathers}} Heathers The Musical]]'' has a three-fer: "Our Love Is God", "Seventeen", and "Kindergarten Boyfriend".
523* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrhYasug5Ho The Portrait Song]]" from ''[[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice Austen's Pride]]''.
524* The ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' [[ScreenToStageAdaptation stage musical]] has three songs with this aesthetic, all in the show's last third: "Let Go", the ElevenOClockNumber "Pretend", and the finale ultimo "As Long As There Is Love".
525* "Send In the Clowns" from ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'', [[BreakawayPopHit popularized by]] Music/JudyCollins.
526* ''Theatre/TheProm'' has "[[https://youtu.be/SN_ms6VNgr8 Dance With You]]", which gets a FinalLoveDuet TriumphantReprise to start off the finale. Other contenders include "[[https://youtu.be/YL30_wOexFI The Acceptance Song]]" and "[[https://youtu.be/PqOhQJh75ug Unruly Heart]]".
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530* Ride/DisneyThemeParks often commission these for ad campaigns, day-ending pyrotechnic shows and/or {{Milestone Celebration}}s.
531** 25th anniversary of Walt Disney World (1996): "Remember the Magic", sung by Brian [=McKnight=], was probably the first example of this trope for the theme parks. A rewritten version was incorporated into the later ''Believe...in Holiday Magic'' fireworks show.
532** EPCOT's Big Damn Pyrotechnics Show ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB36HWWsePY Illuminations: Reflections of Earth]]'' ends with one of these, followed by the exit music "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8n0oRXWUg Promise]]".
533** The Millennium Celebration (1999-2000) centered on Epcot had the general theme song "Celebrate the Future Hand in Hand".
534** A duet reprise of the song "Wishes" plays after the Magic Kingdom fireworks show of the same name.
535** ''Beauty and the Beast -- Live on Stage'' at Hollywood Studios uses the Music/CelineDion / Peabo Bryson version of the title song as exit music.
536** 50th anniversary of Disneyland (2005): "Remember When", sung by Music/LeAnnRimes and written by Richard Marx. The finale of the ''Remember...Dreams Come True'' fireworks show was sung live at the park by Rimes on May 5th, 2005.
537** ''Ride/WorldOfColor'' has its own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqCaZbZjoA song]] with all sugary-sweetness we expect and love from Disney - although the portion played during the finale sounds less like an Award Bait Song.
538** Even Space Mountain had its own Big Damn Bronze-Age Disney Style Award-Baiting Exit Tunnel Power Ballad for a while, a surprisingly moving number about believing in dreams and reaching for the stars. Not to be outdone, Mission: Space has a similar theme song, entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B98v_66iX4U "Destiny"]], about courage and hope and whatnot.
539** The current fireworks show at Magic Kingdom, ''Happily Ever After'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdjlUQYfWkY the titular song]] performed by Jordan Fisher and Angie Keilhauer playing during the opening and finale segments of the show. In addition, "Go the Distance" from Hercules plays during the start of the finale.
540** ''Ride/WondrousJourneys'' has [[https://youtu.be/s8VTxCPHdIY "It's Wondrous"]], which sings praises for "the magic what we call life" and pursuit of dreams.
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544* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shclq-bVBwo narcissu ~eon~]]'' has all the trappings of one, despite being the theme for the comparatively small-time VN ''VisualNovel/{{Narcissu}} 2''. Power ballad, check. Sparkly synth, check. Covering a [[RageAgainstTheHeavens theme]] of the game itself, check. Being a TearJerker song [[LyricalDissonance despite the seemingly-hopeful tune]], check.
545* All the ''VisualNovel/{{Yarudora}}'' games have memorable Ending Songs, but the one that fits the trope out them all is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ywNk6Z9GQ Kisetsu o Dakishimete]]", from the [[VisualNovel/KisetsuODakishimete game of the same name]]. A love ballad sung by Oto Fumi in 1998, it's the only song in the ''Yarudora'' games to have entered the Japanese weekly Oricon charts, reaching the #64 rank and being charted for four weeks.
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549* Parodied with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB7f_kZQ9hY "Sean Connery: The Musical"]] by legolambs, a heartfelt ballad shung by "Creator/SeanConnery" about hish [[FangThpeak shignature acshent]].
550-->''"Shome people shay I can't help it,''\
551''I ashure you thish ishn't the cashe.''\
552''It'sh jusht that I find,''\
553''You get more out of life,''\
554''When you follow your 's' with an 'h'!"''
555* The ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' movie, which lapsed into DevelopmentHell before being retooled into a Kickstarter-funded series, seems to be an AffectionateParody of the Disney animated musical. So far we've seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcbazH6aE2g "Part Of Your World"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFdLtoKQ7HU "A Whole New World"]].
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559* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E14Pee Pee]]" has a parody with "Minorities in my Waterpark", sung by [[Characters/SouthParkEricCartman Cartman]]. [[LyricalDissonance The lyrics are about Cartman's displeasure with]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin too many minorities showing up at the waterpark]].
560* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inrfvsVGMGg If]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBZLrf2LxZE Only]]" from the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Mayhem Of The Music Meister!".
561* "There's Always Tomorrow" from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964''.
562** Fellow Creator/RankinBass Christmas special, the relatively obscure 1967 production ''Cricket On The Hearth'', has [[https://youtu.be/KNHKROg_S_k?t=2m9s the unnamed song]] that plays from the point of view of the leading human character; comparing his and his blind daughter's current Christmas with that of the First Christmas and realizing that it can still be Christmas without the usual decorations and trimmings associated with the holiday as long as he and his daughter still have each other. The song is actually reprised over the end credits, making it somewhat of an UrExample to the songs that played over the end credits of many a movie from the 80s onward.
563* The theme song to the English dub of ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfDavidTheGnome''.
564* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' had a parody in the form of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IxiaB2YTrs This Grill is Not a Home]]".
565** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggi2NgyHS8o "All You Need Is Friendship"]] is a straight example.
566* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
567** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIr2GlNoGGA "Love Is in Bloom,"]] from the "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 Canterlot Wedding]]" [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 two-parter]]. Appropriately, a Disneyish season finale ends with a Disneyish song.
568** The Season 3 finale, which is also a MusicalEpisode, has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3gWWDajE34 "I've Got to Find A Way"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-xZ1gp9X84 "Celestia's Ballad"]].
569** ''Pinkie Pride'', the show's second musical episode, gives us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdi7WXkd5Qg "Pinkie's Lament"]], which according to writer Amy Keating Rogers, was inspired by the aforementioned "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina".
570** Season 4's finale does it again with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fphUZV7dKUw "You'll Play Your Part"]] in Part 1, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuKMykvsgZc "Let The Rainbow Remind You"]] in Part 2. Especially the former, with its Disney-esque instrumentation and lyrics.
571** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aJyDsL2wMU The Mane Theme]] itself has recieved an Award Bait arrangement sung by Kaylee Johnston, which [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was intended for]] the ''Equestria Girls'' ending credits but [[CutSong dropped]] in favor of the aforementioned "A Friend For Life".
572** ''Crusaders of the Lost Mark'', the show's third musical episode, marking the CMC's earning of their Cutie Marks and the fifth anniversary of the show's premiere, appropriately has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb4rR9fN0ho "The Pony I Want to Be"]], also Diamond Tiara's first solo song.
573** Season 5 Episode 24, "The Mane Attraction", features "[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/07/epic-new-song-from-sdcc-pofny-panel.html The Magic Inside (I Am Just a Pony)]]", sung by Tony Award winner Creator/LenaHall.
574** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E17TheTimesTheyAreAChangeling The Times They are a Changeling]]'' gives Spike an award-baiting solo number with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd1Y7xCUPHA "A Changeling Can Change"]].
575** Season 7's "The Perfect Pear" was the episode to finally give a backstory to Applejack's parents and naturally featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCjW3wB_Mg0 "You're In My Head Like A Catchy Song"]] - a love song from her mother to her father. Also performed by guest star Creator/FeliciaDay.
576** "Fame and Misfortune" climaxes with the Mane Six breaking into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB1rFbLOhwE "Flawless"]] - an anthem about how none of them are perfect but it doesn't matter with ThePowerOfFriendship. In six-part harmony too!
577** The GrandFinale of the series, fittingly titled "The Last Problem", gives us an award-baiting final number called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-GsRpiezk "The Magic of Friendship Grows"]], celebrating all the good times throughout the years.
578* The song "Wishes" from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' Christmas special stands out as this because of its pop-like quality and sound despite not being sung by someone famous. It doesn't lose the syrupy nature of most Madeline songs, and it fits.
579* ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'' has '''three'''; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC5iqMCdLL8 ''Ain't No Planes'']], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lrYwkVXjtI ''All Life Long'']], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9zgkJHBXmw ''New World'']].
580* Speaking of Christmas specials, the infamous ''WesternAnimation/RapsittieStreetKidsBelieveInSanta'' closes out with "[[https://youtu.be/4e-wuyjgDPQ?t=38m57s Through the Eyes of A Child]]", sung by Paige O'Hara and Peabo Bryson. It's a bit more upbeat than a lot of other examples, but it still falls under this. Also, it's pretty much the only genuinely good thing about the special, while the rest of it falls squarely into SoBadItsGood.
581* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U116UZgxIvQ "The Brightest Star"]] from the Precious Moments animated specials, most notably "Timmy's Gift", as performed by James Ingram and Melissa Manchester.
582* Even ''WesternAnimation/HorridHenry'' gets into this trope with [[https://youtu.be/fSu4KMMGP1s ''Rockstar'']] from the fictional band The Killer Boy Rats.
583* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z81oFujuqik&ab_channel=Ro994BC Ce mur qui nous sépare]]'' ("This wall between us") is a love duet between Marinette/Ladybug and Adrien/Cat noir and intended for the upcoming [[TheMovie movie]] ''Ladybug & Cat Noir Awakening''.
584* Although it was co-produced in South Korea, ''Animation/IronKid'' is a good example of this with the ending theme from the original Korean version [[https://youtu.be/sNqGhTZMzLE ''Come Back'']] performed by May. Another song on the show's soundtrack, also from the original Korean version, but not in the series are also slow and dreamy ballads like [[https://youtu.be/6l9sCUi4WCs ''Forever.'']] The ending theme from the Japanese dub is even more baity.
585* ''WesternAnimation/JellyJamm'' has a more upbeat and lively use but manages to keep it's positive message about diversity with [[https://youtu.be/2nQiwMDOazU ''Holding Hands.'']] It was also used for a Christmas album that Guille Milkyway, the person behind the songs in the show worked on.
586* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtpa6ES-Zbk The Spirit of Christmas]]" from "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace", has all the makings of one, including a piano instrumental, soft vocals, a message about friendship, and an overall warm tone. Jet even notes that the song is a crowd-pleaser. Despite this, it never won any awards in real life.
587* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4uyNNDkEeI "Hope's Song"]] from WesternAnimation/VeggieTales' "An Easter Carol".
588* The main theme to the PilotMovie of ''WesternAnimation/TheWindInTheWillows1983'' was given a [[https://youtu.be/TyZlB0g74kI?feature=shared vocal arrangement]] in this style, sung by Ralph [=McTell=], for the series.
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592* Award Bait Songs were so pervasive that in 2003, the Academy revised the rules. Nominees must be written specifically for the film and occur during the main action or as the first song in the credits. A later revision is that only two songs are eligible per movie (''Beauty and the Beast'', ''The Lion King'', ''Dreamgirls'', and ''Enchanted'' had hogged the categories with three nominations each prior to this; the last two actually ''lost'' the category presumably due to vote splitting).
593* In the '90s, a pair of artists and a composer created an internet poll to gauge people's opinions of various musical elements. Then, based on the data gathered, they created [[http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/ "The Most Unwanted Song"]], filled with the most unpopular elements on the survey, and [[http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/05/survey-produced/ "The Most Wanted Song"]], filled with the most popular. The latter is total award bait.
594* The UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade has had a few, at least one of which was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Original Song:
595** The earliest known award bait song associated with the parade was "It's Thanksgiving Day", which Ed [=McMahon=] would sing at the end of the first hour of coverage, at least since 1979 or so. The last time he did it (1981), he sang it with a girl named Kaleena Kiff.
596** The successor to that song was another Milton and Anne [=DeLugg=] composition, "Giving Thanks". It was first performed by Mary Jo Catlett (yes, [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants that]] Mary Jo Catlett) in 1983, and was reprised the next year by John Ratzenberger (yes, [[Series/{{Cheers}} th]][[Creator/PixarRegulars at]] John Ratzengerger). It was also the parade's closing theme for a few years.
597** "A Wonderful Day Like Today", sung by Clifton Davis in 1988, would be a much straighter example if not for it being more upbeat and having a cheesy talk-singing bridge. Like "Giving Thanks", it too was the parade's closing music until 1993.
598** The same with "Santa Claus Adventure" (1997) by Liz Callaway, minus the AWildRapperAppears bridge (in fact, the song was more Disneylike in feel than "Wonderful Day", helped by Callaway's status as a veteran of Disney and non/Disney animated musicals).
599** "Just Beyond The Dream" (1999), by Lillias White, which was also featured in Macy's 2000 4th of July Fireworks show.
600** "When Hope Was There" (2003), by the USO Troupe of Metropolitan New York and Camp Broadway, [[InMemoriam written as a tribute to the recently-deceased]] Creator/BobHope. It's a bit more upbeat and patriotic than most Award Bait Songs, but it fits into this trope nonetheless.
601** "Free To Dream" (2004), by Deborah Voigt
602** "My Gift Of Thanks" (2005), by Michael Feinstein (who wrote it) and the Highbridge Voices
603*** That year's parade also featured the above-mentioned "Remember When", as part of a segment paying tribute to the 50th anniversary of Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
604** "Key To This Wonderful City" (2007), by Feinstein and [[Theatre/{{Dreamgirls}} Anika]] [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Noni Rose]] is similar to "When Hope Was There" in that it's more upbeat than all of these examples, but still fits this mold.
605** "I Believe" (2008), by [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] and Camp Broadway is one of the more popular examples to come out of the parade. The next parade featured both a TriumphantReprise of the song and a [[LetsDuet duet version]] featuring Kermit and actress Creator/TiffanyThornton. The latter version was also released to iTunes and Radio Disney during the 2009 holiday season.
606** "With You I'm Home" (2009), by Jane Krakowski.
607** Cheyenne Jackson's "Play To Win" from 2009 as well, though it's performed in a swinging Rat Pack crooner style that isn't usually associated with Award Bait Songs.
608** "Yes Virginia" (2010), by Ann Hampton Calloway is notable since it was inspired by the Macy's-funded TV special of the same name (which, bizarrely enough, aired on [[Creator/{{CBS}} a rival network]]), but did not appear in it (the special debuted one year earlier).
609** For the 2012 parade, Thirza Defoe contributed the ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''-esque anthem "Tree of Life".
610** Music/PatBenatar's "One Christmas Night" debuted in 2015.
611** During Obama's last day in office, Lin Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson perform "One Last Time" from ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' and the song becomes an award bait song midway through as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV4UpCq2azs here]].
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